| Thievery Corporation / Radio Retaliation |
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| Album: | Radio Retaliation | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Thievery Corporation | Added: | Oct 2008 | |
| Label: | Esl Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-11-02 | Pull Date: | 2009-01-04 |
| Week Ending: | Jan 4 | Dec 28 | Dec 21 | Dec 14 | Dec 7 | Nov 30 | Nov 23 | Nov 16 |
| Airplays: | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 10, 2021: | Mix Tape: Sh'mini Mandala | 4. | Feb 20, 2014: | Sunshine . . . on a Birthday Afternoon! Vampires | |
| 2. | Jan 27, 2016: | radio seven Sound The Alarm | 5. | Sep 03, 2013: | Good Day Sunshine! The Numbers Game, Vampires | |
| 3. | Nov 09, 2015: | Happy Hour Blasting Through The City | 6. | Apr 29, 2013: | Happy Hour Blasting Through The City |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2008-10-29 | ||
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Thievery Corporation – Radio Retaliation Reviewed by Sadie O., 10/24/08 Stylistically all over the map (quite literally) – Reggae, Indian, Latin, Funk, Folky/Spacey… Many different vocalists. Most tracks are excellent – political and/or philosophical lyrics, strong musicianship. A few tracks are a bit too spacey-pretty for my tastes, but on the whole a terrific package (although I personally find the packaging annoying as hell!) FCC on track 11, sadly. I like all of the first 8 tracks, and 12 and 14. 1. 3:41 ***siren, then uptempo reggae skank, nicely aggressive. 2. 4:01 ***spacy hand percussion and drones, sitar. Scratching fits right in – interesting stuff! 3. 3:27 ***starts with bit of toasting, then midtempo roots skank. Great sound, and lyrics made for radio. 4. 4:57 ***funky cool upbeat percussion, chimes –Soul Makossa feel. 5. 3:36 **downbeat funky worldbeat groove. Vocals appear to be in Brazilian Portuguese – I guess the relation to Krishna is all in the translation, not the sound. 6. 3:29 ***sweet and energetic Latin groove, lovely vocal harmonies, in Spanish. 7. 3:11 ***lovely flute intro, midtempo hand percussion, mysterious vibe. Instrumental – excellent. 8. 3:48 ***swingy, jazzy, hip hoppy, relaxed and groovy, hip hop vocals in English. 9. 3:28 *trancey, breathy, very downbeat, female vocals. Actually puts me to sleep, but there are worse ways to go. 10. 4:29 *also trancey, downbeat and breathy, with electronic whooshes, pretty female vocals, this time in French. 11. 2:54 FCC: “motherfuckers” X 2 **electronic squeebles intro, then upbeat midtempo jazzy instrumental with an island feel in the percussion. Bit of recording of fiery speech, beboppy clarinet solo. 12. 3:04 ****straight up funk, male soul singing, great lyrics. Marvin Gaye would be proud. 13. 3:38 *lowkey echo-y electronics, building gradually to a swingy groove with lots of spacey sounds, instrumental. Gets better as it goes along. 14. 3:34 ***long intro, then very downtempo reggae skank, fine vocals, electronic boops. 15. 4:49 very slow, folky, anthemic chord structure, but in a very relaxed and spacey way, breathy female vocals. You can do that Grateful Dead dance where they wave their hands and twirl around… | ||
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